[LUNI] Routers, MTU, and Comcast, oh my!

[Russ Arbuthnot]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:39:49PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
> Kelly Martin wrote:
> 
> Well they're not using PPPoE in my area at least, and my router is 
> currently set to 1500.  So I guess my router just sucks after all.  The 
> curious thing for me is that the same setup on RCN in another area had 
> the same problem, but nowhere near to the same extent.
> 
> On RCN, I would get enough dropped packets that I couldn't do streaming 
> media and often had one account on GAIM sign itself off periodically. 
> If I plugged a system in directly, there was no trouble.  On Comcast, I 
> always come back to find GAIM completely disconnected, and my Mozilla 
> Mail on Win2k (different system) is usually jammed in mid-POP request so 
> that it has to be closed and restarted to even work.  I don't know why 
> there's such a drastic difference in performance degradation between the 
> two, as they're both Cable modem systems.

I have a linksys firewall/router as well, using Earthlink/Mindspring DSL w/
PPPoE and although mine doesn't seem to drop packets, it does timeout my
connections after about 5 minutes I've noticed. This is pretty annoying since
I do a lot of remote work over ssh. I haven't quite spent the time to figure
out how to stop it from doing this, but you might be having the same problem
with yours.

russ

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